The Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Physical Biology is available to all students who enter the trans-institutional QCB or IGP graduate admissions programs, or the MSTP. The Ph.D. training program is designed to provide rigorous integrated training at the interface of the chemical and/or physical sciences and the biomedical sciences. The coursework and research components of the program prepare students for research careers in which they can bring state-of-the-art tools of the modern chemical and physical sciences, mathematics, statistics and informatics, and computer science to bear on cutting-edge problems in biology and medicine.
The curriculum prepares students for research careers in four tracks: chemical biology; structural biology and molecular biophysics, imaging science, and systems biology. Research opportunities are available in a broad range of areas including biological mass spectroscopy, bio magnetics and nonlinear dynamics, computational biology and molecular modeling, protein-protein interactions, NMR and EPR, x-ray crystallography and scattering, cryo-electron microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy, in vivo imaging, protein-nucleic acid interactions, structural biology, chemical biology, molecular toxicology, macromolecular structure and dynamics, mechanistic enzymology, nanocrystals, proteomics, and mathematical modeling of biological systems.